Beginner Gardening: Grow lights, 0 by Ozark

Ozark wrote:
Yep, I'm doing it about like everybody else who's answered. I grow my seedlings on a workbench in my shop where it's cool, and I built a simple frame to hang three 48" two-bulb shop lights from Lowe's. There are hooks in the overhead frame to hang the light chains from, so I can raise the lights as the seedlings grow. I've got the lights on a timer, 16 hours a day.

Each shop light has a "cool" bulb and a "warm" bulb, and like others I've noticed that the seedlings grow toward the "cool" bulbs. They like that kind of light better, and if I had it to do over again I'd only buy "cool" white florescent bulbs.

The 48" shop lights from Lowe's were only about $10 each - much cheaper than "grow lights" from seed suppliers.